Tyler Bell is a founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building developer-first web products, currently co-leading MemberStack from Williamsburg, VA. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with product instincts honed from founding Formatically and scaling MemberStack since 2018. Tyler ships pragmatic, customer-focused features—evident in his open-source contributions to the popular docx library where he added first-page headers and page-numbering to improve document formatting. A Y Combinator S20 alum with a Computer Science degree from William & Mary, he brings both startup operational experience and technical depth. He favors elegant, maintainable code and has a track record of turning nuanced UX needs into robust engineering solutions. Colleagues describe him as a builder who quietly improves the web one well-crafted line of code at a time.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
S20 Startups, S20 Startups at Y Combinator
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at William & Mary
Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API. Works for Node and on the Browser.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Tyler focused on enhancing the `docx` library by adding features related to header customization and page numbering. They implemented the ability to define a different header for the first page and incorporated page number functionality within the document. These changes involved modifying core file structures, adding new components, and adjusting the export process to include these features in the generated `.docx` files. The contributions demonstrate a focus on expanding the library's capabilities for document formatting and structure.
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Tyler Bell - Co-founder & Software Engineer At MemberStack